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I was listening to National Radio this afternoon in the car. David McPhail never did convince me as Muldoon, but crikey he sounds like Winston Peters these days. I think educated New Zealanders of their generation aspired to sounds closer to RP than we do now, and there's the smoker's burr… and by the sound of the slurring, a liquid lunch too.

Anyway, my mate Julian wrote to me today about this, saying "Helen Clark has been reading your blog and has decided to call your bluff on this one". Fine. I don't care. That's it for Labour next election. I warned yers fair and square. Voting my conscience, I am.

For some days now, I've been meaning to write an extended rant on Winston Peters' latestoutrages. The innuendo, the smears, the coyly hidden racism. But what is there to say that hasn't been said before? I started to write a critique of his last speech, but I gave up in disgust: the task of countering every lie or half-truth was too onerous to complete, and the effort to read and reread his odious words too nauseating.

I got as far as this:

"There is a net outflow of just over 18,000 New Zealanders to Australia and more elsewhere each year while in the same period we bring in a net increase of 19,000 new Asian immigrants." Because we all know that Asians can't be New Zealanders. Unlike Poms, presumably.

"Establish long-term labour market demands and import skills needed if sufficient New Zealanders cannot be trained." This is policy anyway, and has been for years.

"What these projections showed was the Asian population in New Zealand will increase 145 percent from an estimated 270,000 in 2001 to 670,000 in 2021." No mention of the growth in OTHER segments of the population. Or for that matter, any discussion of why an increase in the Asian section of it might be bad. I guess it just goes without saying—it sure did here.

"In other words we are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from." Asians are minority of total migrants—it's Europeans and the British who are colonising us. Surprise!

"This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population." No, it's a deliberate policy of having objective criteria based on your ability to contribute to this country. Presumably NZ First will require white skin and a heartbeat. Note the use of the word repopulation, as though the deportion squads will be arriving tomorrow while Koreans move into your house.

If there's much more of this immigration carry-on, I will be commissioning a sign for my front lawn. It will read:

IMMIGRANT TAXI
DRIVERS WELCOME.

WINSTON KISS MY ARSE.

This sign paid for by immigrant taxi driver's grandson

In the end though, it isn't really Winston who I'm pissed off with. It's a free country, and he can talk any old shit he likes, no matter how vile and false. No, the people who are currently pissing me off are the fools who listen to him.

The ones whose grandchildren aren't breeding and don't realise that it's the nice brown and yellow people who'll be looking after them in the nursing home. The ones who think that culture is a zero-sum game, so that if I practise mine, they are somehow prevented from practising theirs. The morons who think there's a language called Asian. The ones who rely on the capital and labour and hard work of a bunch of imports but haven't the grace to say thank you. You softminded bigots. Thank God you're a minority. If you ever become a majority, you won't be worrying about immigration any more. It'll be emigration, as all the people who still have their wits leave. And that includes this native-born, educated, high-earning citizen.

Note to politicians contemplating coalition with Mr Peters. You will never get my vote again.